What should have been warm, fuzzy photos of couples are drastically transformed into stark, rather eerie portraits by Saiko Kanda and Mayuka Hayashi. Using an actual CT scan and x-ray machine, the students artists photographed 4 couples, removing the everyday information that we typically perceive. But surprisingly what is revealed is something more than what we would see in a doctor’s office.

“X-ray images usually show the finite nature of our bodies composed only of matter,” say the duo. “But these couples portraits reveal a pulse that isn’t normally seen.” Romantic? No. Intimate? Absolutely.

I know everyone’s going “aww, how cute, I want a print!”, but all I can think about?
Some of those are crazy awkward ways to sleep, man. I wasn’t aware couples regularly slept on top of one another, curled on separate vertical parts of the bed, or on each other’s feet.